Harbour Drive
This large oil painting depicts the harbour front in George Town, Grand Cayman, as it appeared in the mid-1990s. While many of the buildings are now long gone, the oldest surviving public structure in the Cayman Islands, notable for its distinctive red roof, remains to this day — now the site of the National Museum. Evoking a quieter time before the proliferation of cruise ship visitors and heavy traffic, Harbour Drive remains a bustling centre of commerce, housing the seaport and numerous shopping attractions for visitors and locals alike.
About the Artist
Joanne Sibley
b. 1930
Joanne Sibley arrived in the Cayman Islands from Canada in 1980 after living in Jamaica, where she had established herself as a successful artist. An interior designer by trade, Sibley has a signature style highly influenced by her formal training in architectural rendering. She has become one of the Islands’ most prolific and recognisable artists and was awarded the 1995 Creativity Prize by CNCF. Her work is featured in Art of the Cayman Islands, the Islands’ first formal art history (Scala Fine Art Publishers Ltd.: Fall 2016). NGCI exhibitions include the solo show Watermarks (2005), Faces and Figures (2007), Our Story of Art (2013), Metamorphoses (2014), All Access (2015), A Legacy of Light (2016), Mediating Self (2017), Tropical Visions (2019), Seascapes: Maritime Art from the National Collection in Little Cayman (2020) at the Little Cayman Museum, Saltwater in Their Veins (2020) and The People’s Collection: A 25-Year Cultural Legacy (2022).
